We often say that every member is an integral part of the LET'S SPEAK community – and it's absolutely true! With each session, we get to know you a little better. But we, the community moderators, don't always share much about ourselves, even though you ask sometimes.
So today, to mark our anniversary, we'd like to turn the spotlight around and share a few of our favorites – including a film or TV show, a book, a YouTube video or channel and one piece of advice for learning English 💡
📚 Alena
➖ Film/TV show – Peaky blinders
➖ Book – "Gone with the wind" by Margaret Mitchell
➖ YouTube video/channel – 1.5 HOUR English Conversation Lesson
➖ Advice for learning English – As you know, practice makes perfect. Find opportunities to speak English daily: find your English study buddy, attend speaking clubs or just open IELTS speaking questions and chat with yourself.
📚 Mariia
➖ Film/TV show – Ted Lasso
➖ Book – "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
➖ YouTube video/channel – ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus
➖ Advice for learning English – Find any article, well-written story, decoded TED podcast and LEARN BY HEART. Start with reading it out-loud, translating, retelling and finally learning. You'll notice your progress soon, I promise.
📚 Polina
➖ Film/TV show – The Four Seasons and The Studio
➖ Book – All of Jules Verne
➖ YouTube video/channel – For a serious learning experience – 10 ESSENTIAL ENGLISH ADJECTIVES TO DESCRIBE PEOPLE, or just for fun and for listening to a real conversation in English Good Hang with Amy Poehler
➖ Advice for learning English – One of the things that best helped me learn and kinda feel the language is watching movies, interviews, TV shows in the original. At first, it was tough – I struggled a lot and even gave up a few times because I couldn’t relax while watching. But there's such a joyful feeling when you suddenly use a phrase or structure you never officially learned – it just pops into your head because you heard it once in a show, and it somehow stuck with you.
We tried to choose things that are useful, but honestly? We just genuinely enjoyed them and thought you might too.
Let us know if you've already seen or read any of them – or what your own current favorites are! 💜